Sophos Acquires Braintrace and their Network Detection and Response (NDR) Technology

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Provides Visibility into Suspicious Network Traffic Patterns for Sophos Managed Threat Response (MTR), Rapid Response, and Extended Detection and Response (XDR)

22 Lug 2021 Autore:

Today we celebrated another milestone at Sophos as we announced that Sophos has acquired Braintrace. The acquisition will empower our Extended Detection and Response (XDR) customers with deep visibility into their network traffic and expand Sophos’ global Managed Threat Response (MTR) and Rapid Response teams and capabilities.

Founded in 2016, Braintrace is privately held and located in Salt Lake City, Utah. Braintrace’s NDR provides deep visibility into network traffic patterns, including encrypted traffic, without the need for Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) decryption.

The addition of the Braintrace technologies to the Sophos portfolio will allow our partners bring Sophos MTR and XDR technology to a wider addressable audience, targeting new prospects and upselling existing customers. Braintrace’s technology will support Sophos’ MTR and Rapid Response analysts and XDR customers through integration into the Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem (ACE), which underpins all Sophos products and services.

The technology will also serve as the launchpad to collect and forward third-party event data from firewalls, proxies, virtual private networks (VPNs), and other sources. These additional layers of visibility and event ingestion will significantly improve threat detection, threat hunting and response to suspicious activity, especially for MTR and XDR customers that do not use Sophos Firewall. We plan on introducing Braintrace’s NDR technology for MTR and XDR in the first half of 2022.

As part of the acquisition, Braintrace’s developers, data scientists and security analysts have joined Sophos’ global Managed Threat Response (MTR) and Rapid Response teams. The incredible talent coming over to Sophos from the Braintrace team will provide an immediate boost to our MTR and Rapid Response teams as we experience unprecedented growth. Sophos MTR now protects more than 5,000 customers, and billings have grown at a monthly compound rate of 223% (at constant currency) since inception Oct. 1, 2019. Sophos Rapid Response billings have grown at a monthly compound rate of 99% since launching Oct. 28, 2020 (at constant currency).

We could not be more excited to welcome the Braintrace team to Sophos. Stay tuned for more updates.

Informazioni sull’autore

Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks, including Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and incident response services and a broad portfolio of endpoint, network, email, and cloud security technologies. As one of the largest pure-play cybersecurity providers, Sophos defends more than 600,000 organizations and more than 100 million users worldwide from active adversaries, ransomware, phishing, malware, and more. Sophos’ services and products connect through the Sophos Central management console and are powered by Sophos X-Ops, the company’s cross-domain threat intelligence unit. Sophos X-Ops intelligence optimizes the entire Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem, which includes a centralized data lake that leverages a rich set of open APIs available to customers, partners, developers, and other cybersecurity and information technology vendors. Sophos provides cybersecurity-as-a-service to organizations needing fully managed security solutions. Customers can also manage their cybersecurity directly with Sophos’ security operations platform or use a hybrid approach by supplementing their in-house teams with Sophos’ services, including threat hunting and remediation. Sophos sells through reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.